As the shells fall around them, Hizbullah men await the Israelis  —  Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, south of Tyre  —  Inside a well-furnished apartment in a village on the outskirts of Tyre, with shelves of books piled from floor to ceiling, a black turbaned cleric and three men sit sipping bitter coffee.

Crisis Could Undercut Bush's Long-Term Goals  —  The Israeli bombs that slammed into the Lebanese village of Qana yesterday did more than kill three dozen children and a score of adults.  They struck at the core of U.S. foreign policy in the region and illustrated in heart-breaking images …

Hezbollah's Coup d'État  —  The fog of war makes it impossible for me or anyone else to determine whether or not Israel's war against Hezbollah is succeeding of failing militarily.  But it's painfully obvious that Israel's attempt to influence Lebanese politics in its favor is an absolute catastrophe right now.

Milking it?  —  Certainly, the photographs are distressing, and indeed they are meant to be.  As this piece tells us: … But the photographers, it seems, are not too fussy about how they go about "adding to the shock value".  These two sequences illustrate the extent to which photographers …

Child Victims Incite Anger in Lebanon and Beyond  —  The images of the dead children in southern Lebanon played across the television screens on Sunday over and over again — small and caked in dirt and as lifeless as rag dolls as rescuers hauled them from the wreckage of several residential …

From Carnage in Lebanon, a Concession  —  Taken aback by the carnage from the Israeli bombing of Qana, Lebanon, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice wrung the first significant concession from Israel late on Sunday in its nearly three-week-old war against the Hezbollah militia: an immediate 48-hour suspension of aerial strikes.